It seems simple enough. Publicly available evidence shows two young
men implicated in the horrific massacre in Boston this Monday, the
shooting of the officer at MIT, crimes against others, and violent
resistance against the police. One brother is dead and the other on the
lam. And so the police have locked down Boston, Cambridge, Belmont, and
Watertown. There are tanks and heavily armed officers all over the
streets. They go door to door, without warrants, searching for the
suspect.

The crime of April 15 was unspeakable. The bombers murdered three
people, including an eight-year-old boy, and injured two hundred more,
many of them maimed and missing limbs. An atrocity like this, of course,
represents everything civilization must oppose.

I cannot help but wonder what the standard is that triggers the
martial-law response we’re seeing in New England. If these bombers had
murdered three but not caused as many injuries—if the sheer terror of
their crime had not reached this magnitude—would Boston look like a
totalitarian state right now? What if the police needed to find a serial
killer? Or what if a city was home to lots of violent crime in general?

If the suspect escapes into another city tomorrow, can the police
lock down one city after another until they find him? And how long will
this go on? They might catch him and it might all end and Boston could
be back to normal, if we can call it that, by the end of the weekend.
What if he isn’t caught for a while? What if a future suspect implicated
in a gruesome and dramatic criminal act next year manages to escape
justice for months? Can the police now just shut down cities,
transportation, and—as they did on Monday*—cell service for as long as
they deem necessary? Should normal denizens really have no say of their
own on whether they will risk the violent threats that might await them
outside? If they have no right to walk about freely today without
expecting, at a minimum, serious harassment from authorities, can the
same be true on any other day?

A former Muslim Brotherhood terrorist claims a bizarre video released
out of Egypt demonstrates the “demonic” spirit that has gripped the
nation since its 2011 Islamic revolution.

The video shows a wedding celebration in which a group of men in a
frenzy tear apart a live chicken by hand, then scrabble over its pieces
to eat its raw flesh.

“The video is a glimpse into the dark and incomprehensible spirit that has possessed the souls of Egypt,” claims Walid Shoebat,
a former Palestinian Liberation Organization operative who has since
renounced his terrorist ways. “Lawlessness has abounded, excesses have
gone unrestricted and the full force of Islam has greatly dimmed the
land with its dark clouds, thundering about and striking without
discrimination.”

Shoebat told WND the video comes from a wedding in the Egyptian
district of Algharbieh, which lies on the Nile River between Cairo and
Alexandria.

Shoebat further reports much of Egypt has descended into chaos and
mob rule, with lynchings, rape and “diabolical rituals unknown in our
time.”

He points, for example, to a video from last year,
in which two thieves were caught in a western province village and
without due process were hung upside down while angry crowds mutilated
their bodies, spilling pools of blood on the ground.

One Egyptian commented on YouTube, “What happened to the good old
days when Hosni Mubarak was in charge in which no one dared to do such
things? Because in his time there was law and order and an iron fist to
whoever breaks it.”

Fitting in - The culture the Marxists seek to impose doesn't fit ANY
real world with real people, not even the places where they won. To be
"normal" people are going around pretending to believe things that
simply aren't so, like that anyone wanting to look after himself and his
is "greedy" and must have stolen what he has; that women are physically
stronger than men, and more independent in spirit; that children are
wiser than their parents; that everyone must have sex all the time, or
they'll go mad; that every culture in the world is superior to ours. Sarah Hoyt at accordingtohoyt.com

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[From the video of the night gun fight only, I believe there were more than 200 and then he was probably killed by the vehicle, not the expert marksmanship.:)]

Boston and Watertown police -
Our politicians are saying that the most anyone needs to have to
protect himself from armed intruders is seven rounds in the magazine.
Only seven?! Of course, it took trained police, who were not dealing
with an unexpected attack, who were not roused from a peaceful slumber,
who were not worried about their wives and kids, some 200 rounds to kill
one dangerous man. Makes you wonder if those politicians have even the
slightest, tiniest hint of anything connected with the real world,
doesn't it?Jim Yardley at americanthinker.com (H/t: survivalblog.com)

Liberal scientists so hate western civilization that
they manipulate climate data to "prove" that the Industrialized West is
contributing to dangerous global warming. ... climate data used to
prove global warming were fabricated, fudged, cooked, steamed and
sauteed.Bernie at plancksconstant.org

The imposition of a federal income tax is more than just taking from
those who work and earn and giving to those who don't. And it is more
than just a spigot to fill the federal trough. At its base, it is a
terrifying presumption. It presumes that we don't really own our
property. It accepts the Marxist notion that the state owns all the
property and the state permits us to keep and use whatever it needs us
to have, says Andrew Napolitano in this article, Taxation Is Theft, at Reason.

Amnesty for illegal aliens - Why are Republicans collaborating in erecting the scaffolding on which their party is to be hanged? A year ago, the GOP
platform declared, "We oppose amnesty because it would have the effect
of encouraging illegal immigration and would give an unfair advantage to
those who have broken our laws." What has changed since then? asks Pat
Buchanan in this article, Will the GOP Embrace Amnesty?, at Patrick Buchanan.

Black unemployment -
I doubt whether anyone would argue that the reason for lower
unemployment, higher labor force participation and shorter duration of
unemployment among blacks in the first half of the 20th century was that
there was less racial discrimination. I also doubt whether anyone would
argue that during earlier periods, blacks had higher education and
greater skills attainment than whites. Answers must be sought elsewhere,
says Walter Williams in this article, Black Unemployment, at Creators.

Researchers argue it's possible to measure the complexity of life and
the rate at which it has increased from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to
more complex creatures such as worms, fish and finally mammals. That
produces a clear exponential increase identical to that behind Moore's
Law although in this case the doubling time is 376 million years rather
than two years... "Linear regression of genetic complexity (on a log
scale) extrapolated back to just one base pair suggests the time of the
origin of life = 9.7 ± 2.5 billion years ago," they say. And since the
Earth is only 4.5 billion years old, that raises a whole series of other
questions, say The Physics arXiv Blog in this article at MIT Technology Review. Don't be put off by the source, it's quite readable.

(Brain-dead)

White guy black supremacist hoped the bomber was a white American -
The reason to hope that the bomber is a white American is because in a
country where white privilege and double standards so obviously affect
our national security reactions, that outcome will better guarantee that
the reaction to Boston is a bit more measured. [Alas, reality dashed his hopes. Moslems. Again. Told ya.] David Sirota at salon.com

Gold doesn’t pay a dividend, but it doesn’t
charge commissions, tell you to buy a garbage stock, back date options,
commit accounting fraud, go out of business, get insider information and
use it against you, make money taking the other side of your trades,
front-run your stock orders, create artificial bids, cause flash
crashes, use your funds to bail itself out, blow stock bubbles,
manipulate data, control interest rates to benefit the big banks, lie
under oath or channel the public’s money into foreign banks.Adapted from
Graham Summers
at gainspainscapital.com

Boston bombing - Governments
squeeze each man-made disaster like a ripe papaya until every drop of
sweet advantage can be collected. They use our fear and confusion as
license to attack a predetermined list of targets that may or may not
have had anything to do with the original event. They tell the story in
a way that suits their end-line interests, and the last thing they are
concerned with is helping the public to "understand".Brandon Smith at alt-market.com

History will place their odious legacy where it
belongs, among the great betrayals of man's aspirations, their names
listed with Judas, Arnold, Quisling and Freisler; perhaps even with
Senator Schumer, but only perhaps, here we must hesitate and soberly
reflect on the gravity of this association.

Remember, these
people are revolutionaries and utterly committed to replacing one
societal structure—America's constitutional, limited-government,
free-enterprise system—with another—a socialist,
wealth-redistributionist system run by an all-powerful government.David Kupelian at wnd.com

Police say they have arrested two men accused of conspiring to carry
out an "al-Qaeda supported" attack targeting a Via passenger train in
the Greater Toronto Area, following a cross-border investigation that
involved Canadian and American law enforcement.

In a press conference that followed a report by CBC's Greg Weston,
police named the two accused as Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and
Raed Jaser, 35, from Toronto. They have been charged with conspiracy to
carry out a terrorist attack and "conspiring to murder persons unknown
for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a
terrorist group."

RCMP officials said the two accused were plotting to derail a
passenger train. Jennifer Strachan, chief superintendent of RCMP
criminal operations in the province of Ontario, said
the two suspects watched trains and railways in the Greater Toronto
Area. There was a specific route targeted, not necessarily a specific
train, Strachan said, although she declined to reveal the route.

"We are alleging that these two individuals took steps and conducted
activities to initiate a terrorist attack," she told reporters.

The two men arrested are not Canadian citizens but were in the
country legally, police said Monday. Investigators would not provide any
details about their nationalities.

The RCMP accused the two men of conspiring to commit an "al-Qaeda-supported" attack.

In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the Obama administration
thought they should overstep their Constitutional authority to impose
gun control. Now in light of the Boston bombings and the direct ties to
Islam, I'm calling on the administration to stop all Islamic
immigration into the US.

Mr. Obama and others quote Qur’an 5:32,
which is about the people of Israel, but NEVER quote the next verse
which is about Muslims and indicates the real threat of Islam.

Islam
is not a religion of peace. It is a totalitarian, political death cult
and as such is not compatible with American culture.

In the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombings, focus should be on National Security

Apr 22, 2013

Sen. Rand Paul today issued a letter
to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging him to incorporate various
national security concerns into the comprehensive immigration reform
debate in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Sen. Paul believes
that comprehensive immigration reform requires a strong national
security and until we can fully understand the systematic failures that
enabled two individuals to immigrate to the United States from an area
known for being hotbed of Islamic extremism, we should not proceed.TEXT OF LETTER:

No,
it isn't
perfect, but it is pretty good. This bill will get us badly needed
restaurant carry, clean-up state-wide uniformity on parks carry to
eliminate abuse
by anti-gun municipalities, and will allow employees with permits to
keep handguns locked in cars while working at higher education
facilities.

Yes, we want more, such
as storage at work for everyone, but this represents progress in the direction of freedom.

Currently HB 937
resides in House Judiciary Subcommittee A. We
need to get it passed out of committee and onto the House floor where it
can be voted on. This needs to occur soon because the Senate will also
have
to act on it before it is passed.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Monday that including a pathway to
citizenship for illegal immigrants “jeopardizes the likelihood” of any
immigration reform bill passing.

“I think if instead the bill includes elements that are deeply
divisive – and I would note that I don’t think there is any issue in
this entire debate that is more divisive than a path to citizenship for
those who are here illegally - in my view, any bill that insists upon
that jeopardizes the likelihood of passing any immigration reform bill,”
said Cruz at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration
reform.

The U.S. Senate is preparing to vote on allowing taxation of internet sales. The vote will come as early as this afternoon.

The bill is S. 743, the so-called “Marketplace Fairness Bill.”

While this is not a homeschool issue, this legislation will directly
affect HSLDA, as well as many homeschool families who operate home
businesses and sell items online.

Currently, a small business only needs
to collect sales taxes in states where the business has a physical
presence. The proposed Senate legislation will give the states the
authority to force businesses to collect sales taxes from all online customers, even if the customer lives in a state where the small business has no physical presence.

HSLDA believes that this will significantly hurt many small businesses, as well as any person who buys items online. We urge you to click here
to visit Taxes Without Borders to learn more about this issue, and to
also send prepared emails to your two U.S. senators and your U.S.
representative.

Can you imagine small businesses being required to file monthly sales tax returns in all 50 states?

If you do not want to use the pre-written service above, please
contact your federal elected officials and ask them to reject the
Marketplace Fairness Bill and any other federal legislation which taxes
internet sales. You can reach your federal officials at the Capitol
Switchboard, 202-224-3121, or by typing in your ZIP code in our Legislative Toolbox.
Very truly yours,

A Saudi national originally identified as a “person of interest” in
the Boston Marathon bombing was set to be deported under section 212 3B —
“Security and related grounds” — “Terrorist activities” after the
bombing

As the story gained traction, TheBlaze’s Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood received word that the government may not deport the Saudi national, originally identified as Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi

An ICE official said a different Saudi national is in custody, but is “in no way” connected to the bombings.

A congressional source, however, says that the file on Alharbi was
created, that he was “linked” in some way to the Boston bombings (though
it is unclear how), and that documents showing all this have been sent
to Congress.

Key congressmen of the Committee on Homeland Security request a classified briefing with Napolitano

Fox News’ Todd Starnes reports
that Alharbi was allegedly flagged on a terrorist watch list and
granted a student visa without being properly vetted. Sources close to
the investigation also told him the Saudi is still set for deportation.

New information provided to TheBlaze reveals Alharbi’s file was
altered early Wednesday evening to disassociate him from the initial
charges

Sources say the Saudi’s student visa specifically allows him to go
to school in Findlay, Ohio, though he appears to have an apartment in
Boston, Massachusetts

Sources tell us this will most likely now be kicked from the DHS to
the DOJ and labeled an ongoing investigation that can no longer be
discussed.

Monday morning Glenn Beck laid out what
he knows about the Saudi connection to the Boston marathon bombings.
It is a story that the mainstream media has all but completely ignored,
though Beck says TheBlaze’s Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood reached
out to numerous other networks in an effort to get the story out.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to acknowledge the
story even existed when questioned by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) last
Friday.

I still recall the news and controversy that surrounded the Watergate
affair that resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
The nation’s media was all over the illegal break in by Republicans and
the subsequent cover up that lead all the way to the Oval Office.

It seems we now have a similar incident, only the liberal mainstream
media is pretty much downplaying it because this time it was Democrats
that broke the law. Therefore, it’s no big deal since, well, the
nation’s top Democrat breaks the law every day, doesn’t he?

On December 5, 2012, a number of Democrats attended a meeting at the
White House. Among those in attendance was Barack Obama’s chief campaign
fundraise Matthew Barzun from Kentucky. Barzun wasn’t the only
Kentucky Democrat that attended the White House meeting, so did Shawn Reilly.
Reilly signed in on the White House visitor’s log as part of the same
group as Barzun, at the same time as Barzun, and was listed as attending
a meeting in the same room as Barzun.

A few days after the White House meeting, Reilly began his attacks on
KY Sen. Mitch McConnell, who also happens to be the Senate Minority
Leader. He made no secret that his goal and the goal of his liberal
leftist political action committee, Progress Kentucky, was to replace
McConnell in the US Senate with a liberal Democrat. At the time,
actress Ashley Judd had been indicating that she would run against
McConnell, but when other information on her began to surface, the DNC
started withdrawing their support and the last I heard, she has decided
not to run for office.

Federal and local authorities are continuing their search for a
gunman who escaped after a shootout with a security officer on the
perimeter of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant site near Spring City, Tenn.,
overnight.

The suspect fired multiple rounds at a Tennessee Valley Authority
security officer who was on a routine patrol near the banks of
Chickamauga Lake about 2 a.m. Sunday, TVA spokesman Jim Hopson said.

The officer encountered the suspect in a clearly marked restricted
area several hundred yards from the site’s protected area, which houses
the reactor and power production facilities, but still within the plant
property.

When the officer confronted the person, “The individual fired on the
officer, striking the officer’s vehicle,” said Hopson. “The officer
returned fire, and as the officer was calling for backup, the individual
fled the scene.”

The IRS will issue official furlough notices next week to employees
detailing that the agency will be closed for five days with unpaid leave
for workers this summer because of the sequester.

In a memo to employees, IRS Acting Commissioner Steve Miller said the
furlough days will be May 24, June 14, July 5, July 22 and Aug. 30 with
two additional days possible in August or September. During these days,
all public-facing operations will be closed as will toll-free
operations and Taxpayer Assistance Centers.
“Despite successful efforts over the past year to find cost savings
and our recent efforts to minimize the effects of sequestration, we
still had to make tough decisions on the furlough dates and the best way
to implement them,” he wrote in an internal memo shared with FOX
Business.

Every IRS worker will be covered by the furlough. Personnel in charge
of preserving systems and building security might be asked to work
these days, but will be taking furlough days on alternative dates within
those pay periods.

This was our second KCI magazine
tested with a full 100 round compliment of Fiocchi .223. As you can see,
except for a minor pause for adjusting hearing protection, the mag ran
perfectly, as had the first one. At around a buck around for .223 for
the foreseeable future we don’t do a lot of these tests, but it was
worth a couple hundred bucks to see if these mags actually work. This
summer we hope to use them for 3-Gun matches and prairie dogs.

It
was a huge surprise when, on March 1st, right at the top of the high
cap mag crisis, I got an email from the Sportsman’s Guide for “100 Round
AR-15 Magazines.” Excuse me? What do you live in a cave? Who isn’t
sold out on any and all AR-15 mags for six months at this point? But
sure enough, the sale was real, and while people were still buying 30
round P-Mags on the auction sites for almost 100 bucks each, I got two
of what appear to be exact copies of the Beta C-Mag for $179 each (after
I joined their stupid club, otherwise they are $199).

Initially I
thought that it was kind of a dumb move. They were probably a cheap
Chinese copy and probably didn’t work well, but since I could write
about them for you guys, and “the company” could pay for them, I figured
I’d give them a try. Bad reviews are as well received as positive
reviews here, and if they were anything like the other after high cap
mags I have bought at gun shows over the years, they would end up in the
garbage after my scathing review.

This will be the last week that I am here before I go to Dixieland. I know there are some who are planning on attending, but haven't sent in their checks. I will deposit all checks this Friday the 26th, so those who do plan on attending need to mail your checks either today or tomorrow. Thanks.

Federal prosecutors prepared criminal charges on Sunday against an
ethnic Chechen suspected in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings as he
lay severely wounded, unable to speak and hospitalized under heavy
guard.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who suffered damage to his tongue when shot
through the throat before his arrest, was initially under sedation and
incapable of being interviewed by investigators, authorities said. He
also had been shot in the leg.

But the ABC and NBC news networks reported late Sunday that Tsarnaev
had regained consciousness and was responding in writing to questions
put to him by authorities.

Much of investigators' attention has turned to a trip his older
brother and fellow bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, took to Russia
last year and whether Chechen separatists or Islamist extremists may
have influenced or assisted the siblings.

SB 140,
authored by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), seeks to remedy the
gun-confiscation backlog that has left thousands of illegal guns on the
streets, including those owned by those with criminal convictions or
serious mental illness.

“We are fortunate in California to have the first and only system in
the nation that tracks and identifies individuals who at one time made
legal purchases of firearms but are now barred from possessing them,”
Leno said in a statement.
“However, due to a lack of resources, only a few of these illegally
possessed weapons have been confiscated, and the mountain of firearms
continues to grow each day."

The measure will take $24 million from the Dealer Record of Sale
(DROS) surplus funds and give it to the California Department of
Justice, which is in charge of confiscating illegal guns. The DROS
account holds fees that are imposed upon every transfer or sale of a
firearm in California.

Assemblyman Brian Jones (R-Santee) said he voted against the measure
because the fees that make up the DROS funds are intended to cover the
cost of background checks -- not confiscations.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.